Class 99/540 - Skin

Subclass of Class 99 - Foods and beverages: apparatus
Definition: Device including means to remove the outer integument of
No. of patents: 31
Last issue date: 05/23/2006

Number	Title	Issue Date
7048957	Method and apparatus for processing vegetables According to certain embodiments of the invention, there is provided a method and an apparatus relating to an infeed for positioning the green onions in a generally horizontal position on a conveyor and a transition conveyor for transporting the horizontally dispose...	05/23/2006
6966254	Device for peeling pulpy fruits, having an adjustable cutting depth The invention relates to a device suited to peel pulpy fruits, like citrus fruits, mango, kiwi, papaya, apples, pears, and particularly oranges and other fruits whose skin has not a uniform thickness. The peeling of fruits whose skin has an uneven thickness is made ...	11/22/2005
6814994	Method and device to obtain fresh fruit flesh slices The method includes eliminating the two side caps of the fruit, cutting the remaining portion into slices, optionally classifying by diameter the obtained slices, and finally peeling the slices. The device includes slice cutter (1) provided with two conveyor ...	11/09/2004
6776087	Food processing machine A food processing machine having a product cleaning drum and an encircling product carrier shell disposed to define an annular product cleaning space therebetween. A waste collecting bell is concentrically mounted about the carrier shell to provide a waste collectin...	08/17/2004
6428834	Self-contained mobile system and method for selectively processing fresh corn A mobile system for processing raw ears of corn includes a first mobile processing trailer for receiving raw unhusked ears of corn, holding the ears and disbursing them to a husker for removing corn husks and corn silk from the ears. A conveyer takes the ...	08/06/2002
6382089	Cutting device for citrus fruit A cutting device is disclosed for use to derind a half-section of a citrus fruit. The device has an upwardly opened container with a vertical axis. An upwardly opened cup is coaxially mounted in a removable manner within the container at a short distance ...	05/07/2002
6167801	Peeler for root vegetables The present invention relates to a device for peeling root vegetables. The device comprises a container (1), which at its bottom has at least two rotatably arranged discs (4), which have grating or cutting means on their upper side. According to the inven...	01/02/2001
6131508	Garlic surface membrane stripper A garlic surface membrane stripper comprises a first body, a second body, a press rod, and a press structure. The first body is installed with a plurality of membrane stripping claws therewithin. The lower ends of the membrane stripping claws are formed w...	10/17/2000
5996482	Specification A high speed, high volume fruit sectionizer is comprised of a pair of suction cup conveyors onto which fruit is loaded. The fruit is coupled by means of suction attachment to a first conveyor and carried to a position wherein the opposing side of the frui...	12/07/1999
5996483	Peeler A peeler for garlic and/or peanuts includes a housing having an open top end and a cylindrical inner wall surface on which four ribs having respective surfaces are formed, and a lid for closing the housing top end. The peeler includes a central beater sur...	12/07/1999
5787801	Apparatus and method for coring and sectionizing fruit A high speed, high volume fruit sectionizer is comprised of a pair of suction cup conveyors onto which fruit is loaded. The fruit is coupled by means of suction attachment to a first conveyor and carried to a position wherein the opposing side of the frui...	08/04/1998
5613431	Avocado cutter A tool for use on an avocado, for separating the meat of an avocado from its skin while simultaneously cutting the meat into separate slices, comprising a handle having a first end and a second end and a frame mounted at one end of the handle. The frame h...	03/25/1997
5533442	Avocado peeler and slicer A tool for use on an avocado, for separating the meat of an avocado from its skin while simultaneously cutting the meat into separate slices, comprising a handle having a first end and a second end and cutting rings are mounted at one end of the handle. T...	07/09/1996
5476037	Bulbar skin removing apparatus An apparatus for removing the skins of bulbs, such as onions, garlic and scallions, with numerous slits previously provided thereon after cutting off their stems and roots, utilizing the force of jetted fluid. In this apparatus, a carrier for transferring...	12/19/1995
5465657	Device for removing outer membrane of scallion head or garlic head A device includes a barrel for receiving objects and includes air supplied into the barrel for generating air eddy in order to disengage and to remove outer membrane from the objects. A shutter is pivotally coupled to the lower portion of the barrel for e...	11/14/1995
5452651	Automatic mungbean sprout hulling and root cutting apparatus An automatic mungbean sprout hulling and root-cutting apparatus includes a case which has a bean sprout inlet chute to receive bean sprouts transmitted by a conveyer of a transmission means. Bean sprouts then fall upon an inclined screen and are discharge...	09/26/1995
5386754	Cube making and peeling machine A fruit and vegetable cubing or dicing and peeling machine comprises, superimposed onto one another, a first conveyor belt formed by a plurality of equispaced cutting cables, and a second conveyor belt including a plurality of cross cutting blades closely...	02/07/1995
5307738	Food processing machine A dry food processing machine designed to clean and polish vegetables such as potatoes as well as various fruits. The machine includes inner and outer, concentrically arranged, inverted, frusto-conical rotatable members which are concentrically spaced fro...	05/03/1994
5231921	Apparatus for peeling fresh fruit An apparatus peels fruit, in particular citrus fruit, by washing and sterilizing the fruit in a sterilizing bath. The washed and sterilized fruit is delivered to a perforator which makes a plurality of perforations through the outer surface of the peel of...	08/03/1993
5168802	Apparatus for peeling fruits and vegetables Apparatus for peeling fruits and vegetables comprises a plurality of rotatably driven peeling elements having predetermined axes of rotation that are generally horizontal and substantially parallel to one another. The peeling elements have a provision for...	12/08/1992
5007334	Apparatus for making enzyme inactivated viscous fruit pulp and products therefrom Apparatus, method, and product resulting therefrom in which fruit having skins, seeds, and meat is extruded through a perforated drum to provide a small particle size pulp. The pulp is immediately heated quickly to a temperature above the inactivating tem...	04/16/1991
4959903	Citrus fruit pulp cutter A cutting device for segmenting and derinding a half-section of a citrus fruit and for collecting the pulp thereof. It comprises: a rigid first ring, a number of arcuate knives spacedly upwardly projecting from a second integral ring toward an apex area t...	10/02/1990
4885182	Method of and apparatus for extracting juice and meat from a fruit A method of and apparatus for extracting the fruit meat section of a fruit, and subsequently separating and removing the sectional membranes and seeds from the fruit meat section to produce free juice and an abundance of unruptured juice sacs. In one embo...	12/05/1989
4627339	Apparatus for removing skins and pits from avocados and the like A method and apparatus are disclosed for removing skins and pits from avocados and the like in a process where the avocado is initially held in a split cup, knife means being operated for cutting through the avocado skin and flesh and for engaging and hol...	12/09/1986
4476778	Onion peeling An onion peeling machine having a wheel for transporting the onions past a series of stations, where the onions are topped and peeled, the outer skins slit longitudinally of the onion, and the skin removed by water jets. The machine also includes separati...	10/16/1984
4470345	Apparatus for peeling skins off the bulbs of onions Apparatus for peeling onion skins from the bulbs of onions comprising conveyor means for transporting the onion bulbs from a supply thereof and a roller conveyor including a plurality of rotatable cutters. The onion bulbs are supplied by the conveyor mean...	09/11/1984
4369698	Arrangement for separating fruits into fruit pulp, fruit skin and fruit core An arrangement for continuously separating fruits has a housing, a sieve element rotating in the housing and a hammer element rotating inside the sieve element, wherein the sieve element rotates with the speed which is lower than the speed of rotation of ...	01/25/1983
4355572	Apparatus for separating the pulp from the skin of fruit such as tomatoes Apparatus and methods are described for separating the pulp from the skin of fruit, such as tomatoes, in which each fruit is gripped and transported by mechanism along a predetermined path, a cut to the skin of the fruit is produced by cutting device adja...	10/26/1982
4351232	System for processing potatoes A system is provided for slicing raw, whole potatoes into sticks or strips; sorting the sticks, separating out sticks having black or discolored spots thereon, snipping the ends of the separated sticks and sorting the separated sticks after snipping....	09/28/1982
4300448	Apparatus for extracting pulp from citrus fruits An apparatus for extracting the pulp from citrus fruits for the preparation of a fruit drink containing separate juice vesicles or sacs of the pulp comprises a plurality of clamps mounted on the periphery of a rotary drum to hold the halves of the fruits ...	11/17/1981
4177722	Apparatus for the continuous separation of the flesh of fruit from the pits and skins, especially of the pulp of grapes from their seeds and skins An improvement in apparatus suitable for continuous separation of the flesh of fruit from its pits and seeds comprising a rotor 13, a screen 19 opposite the rotor wherein the rotor has radial arms provided with hammer heads 15 for working of the fruit for...	12/11/1979

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